How do you feel about the 10mm for CCW

[gumpokc]

EAA Witness series has a good solid 10mm, as does the colt delta elites, though they are no longer produced.
There are some others out there as well, glock as mentioned but service life is definately somewhat lower without a good maint program.

On Paper, the 10mm, and the .45 are somewhat similar, with the 10mm having an average of 50-100 fps speed advantage on the same weight bullet. The 10mm has a better balco for any particular bullet weight when compared to the .45 which gives it a slightly better tracjectory.

The .45 can handle heavier bullets though, at least according to the loading manuals i have.

Recoil is roughly similar, if you can handle one, you can handle the other.

10mm bullets range 155-200 grains, 1400-1150fps
.45 185-230 grains 1000-900 fps.

yes there others available for both if you handload/reload but just going by the basic charts on my maunals. Will give you a ballpark idea of what they do.

I have had one for about 6 years , parker/wyoming arms (not a very good pistol admittedly) 10mm, have a very nice Colt GCNM custom shop 10mm on layaway that'll be coming home in sept

It's a good cartridge, the few problems it does have, I can see no reason why a little more work couldn't fix. afterall, if they can manage a .50AE, or hot loaded .44mag, both of which far outstrip the 10mm in both recoil energy and power and have semi-autos which handle them well, it seems that making one for the 10mm should not be a problem.

As for the original question of using it for a CCW? I think it would be a poor choice, even though i personally like it.
Your not going to find too many "small" 10mm's for CCW.
If you want something small like that, look for a .40S&W or a .357sig

for a personal sidearm, i think it's great! for a CCW, well...it's not exactly something you hide easily in lightweight clothing.

As for a hunting sidearm,if you don't mind using hollowpoints, or cast lead it's great, there are _no_ JSP's to be found for it, or at least i have never found any in the last 6 years of watching for them.